Book Club- Nuclear Decolonization by Danielle Endres

About our author:

Danielle Endres (she/her) is a Professor of Communication and Director of the Environmental Humanities Program at the University of Utah. Her research areas are Environmental Communication, Indigenous Communication, and Rhetorical Studies. Her research projects focus on the rhetoric of environmental and science controversies including nuclear waste siting decisions, climate change, and energy transitions. Her work is guided by principles of environmental justice and focuses on how underrepresented and marginalized groups, particularly Native peoples and nations, engage in environmental advocacy.

Endres is the author of Nuclear Decolonization: Indigenous Resistance to High-Level Nuclear Waste Siting, co-author of Participatory Critical Rhetoric: Theoretical and Methodological Foundations of Studying Rhetoric In Situ, and co-editor of several books, including the Routledge Handbook of Energy Democracy. The National Science Foundation and several fellowships from theUniversity of Utah have funded her research. Endres is currently working on two projects:analysis of energy justice campaigns in Puerto Rico, and a collaborative project with theNorthwestern Band of Shoshone Nation to collect historical archives for the nation. Endres’public advocacy work includes being a member of the State of Utah’s Hazardous Waste andRadiation Control Board and serving as treasurer of the Utah Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. Outside of work, Endres enjoys walking in the mountains, seeing live music, reading mysteries, and spending time with her partner, kids, and cat.

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